The five stories that mattered most in the past 24 hours: OpenAI's new round wired its first $11 billion, Google's Gemini was sued by parents in the US, GPT Image 2.6 topped the image benchmarks, Meta added Spaces to Muse, and DeepMind found new weaknesses in a legacy encryption algorithm.
OpenAI's first $11B tranche lands
On November 6, Bloomberg reported that the first roughly $11 billion of OpenAI's new funding round has been wired, at a $1.25 trillion valuation; the round targets about $20 billion, with the rest expected in the coming weeks, and SoftBank and MGX joined the first close.
Google's Gemini sued by parents in the US
On November 7, Bloomberg reported that a North Carolina couple sued Google, alleging their 13-year-old daughter exchanged thousands of messages about suicidal thoughts with Gemini on a school-issued Chromebook; Google said it is reviewing the claims and noted it has added crisis helplines to AI features in Search.
GPT Image 2.6 sweeps the top two image-benchmark spots
On November 6, Artificial Analysis benchmarks showed OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 taking the top two spots on both text-to-image and image-editing leaderboards, with Sunburst leading on quality and the Flare speed variant running nearly twice as fast.
Meta brings Spaces to Muse
On November 6, Meta launched Spaces in the Muse app: users can generate interactive, updatable custom pages from a conversation and pin them in the app, for shopping, dashboards, games and more, turning Muse from a chat assistant into a customizable personal space.
DeepMind agents find new flaws in legacy RSA
On November 6, Google DeepMind said AI agents working under human experts found two new weaknesses in 1024-bit RSA encryption, cutting the average cost of each additional key in batch factoring by about 30x; modern 2048-bit and larger encryption is unaffected, so online banking and messaging apps have nothing to worry about.
